The diminishing returns pile up fast, though Creative would love you to think otherwise. My mind works in parallel like that.Ī better sound card is always good time, but you don't describe your existing sound card. More RAM is always great, but I say this to you with over 15 open applications in my taskbar, and this being a light moment, just 8 tabs in Firefox. A tricked out video card will do nothing to improve your desktop/office apps/video performance of Windows XP and is, indeed, only beneficial to gamers.
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Or should I channel it into improving the laptop that's networked to it? (Toshiba Satellite, no empty SIMM slots, so I'm kinda at a loss on how to improve it) posted by jbickers to Computers & Internet (13 answers total)Ī new, sexy, DX9 capable video card is what you'll want if you're going to take the plunge into Vista in January.
Should I channel this urge into a larger monitor? Still using a 15-inch LCD. Would a top-line soundcard be worthwhile, or is there a point of diminishing audio returns when you're playing mp3s? Will I see a big performance jump if I, say, add an AGP card with 512 mb? Or do those things only benefit gamers?īetter sound card? I'm about to run the line out to a component stereo system with nice speakers. My first inclination is a better video card - I'm using the onboard video port on the motherboard, which has 96 mb. I've just got the itching to trick it out a little bit. It's not that the thing runs slow, and it's not that I'm playing Halflife - I'm mainly using it for web browsing and Office.
My geek-meter has just counted down to zero, and I'm dying to do an upgrade of some sort. It's a Pentium 4 3.0 ghz with 1 gig of RAM. I've got a pretty nice WinXP desktop that I'm itching to upgrade.
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